Raff
A thoughtful native file manager for Mac
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Raff is a native Mac file manager for people whose files live everywhere. Browse with tabs, dual panes and gallery views. Gather files from different folders into workspaces without moving them. Group Downloads by kind or date, and review cleanups where nothing is preselected for Trash. Check image exports with Asset Lens and Handoff Preflight, and compare folders over time with Checkpoints. Everything runs locally. £5.99 once, no subscription. macOS 27+, Apple silicon.
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PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
Similar launches
See all 293 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The dual-pane UI, tabs, and grouping logic are vibe-codeable in Swift, but a polished native Mac file manager needs deep macOS integration and performance work on large file trees that AI-assisted coding alone handles poorly.
What it would actually take: Build it in Swift and SwiftUI/AppKit, using FileManager, Spotlight/metadata queries, and Quick Look for previews. The hard parts are fast directory enumeration over very large trees, safe batch operations with undo and Trash semantics, and sandbox and permission handling. Expect a macOS developer who can profile and debug native code, not just prompt-generated code.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 293 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #159 of 294 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 356 days after the earliest competitor.
- Folia Files · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- DevShelf · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Branchway · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- superfile · ph · 2026-07-27 · 188 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Ferry · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) · hn · 2026-07-07 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Seek · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Foldwise · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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